Category Archives: Terrorism

‘The sane of this world’
“We see the straight highway before us, but of course we cannot use it, because it is permanently closed,” wrote Wittgenstein (see here). In North Korea’s case too there is straight highway, but it also permanently closed. …

Daniel Read tells the story of William Dowell, an American reporter during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Dowell ran into problems of his own, soon deciding that his editors operated using a “calculus of death” to determine “newsworthiness.” In Dowell’s view this meant placing greater or less value on human lives, …